Issue 1314: If a fish whose skin is covered by scales is caught alive in water and it dies out of the water thereafter, it will be legal to eat; and so will it be if it is caught alive in water but dies in the fisherman's net; however, if a fish dies as a result of any event other than fishing, it will be pure but illegal to eat.

Issue 1315: A fish whose skin is not covered by scales is illegal to eat even if it is caught in water alive and dies out of the water afterwards.

Issue 1316: It is not necessary for a person who catches fish to be a Muslim; nor will it be necessary to utter the name of Allah before catching fish.

Issue 1317: It is legal to eat a live fish.

Issue 1318: If a fish is roasted alive, or is killed in or out of water before it dies naturally, it will be legal to eat.

Q1319: Some fishers recount that they catch fish in the sea through the use of explosives or different kinds of poison or other equipment which naturally and traditionally do not count as fishing instruments. Are such fish legal to eat? And what is the verdict on their way of fishing?

A: If a fish whose skin is covered by scales has not died by itself but caught in water, it will be legal to eat and it does not make any difference what sorts of tools and methods are used to catch fish; nor does it make any difference whether the fish dies in or out of water.

Q1320: Will the fish be legal to eat if a Muslim sees that an unbeliever takes the fish out of water, or sees that waves have thrown the fish onto shore?

A: For a fish to be halal and legal to eat the necessary condition is that it must have been caught live in water, and it is neither necessary for the fisher to be a Muslim nor to utter the name of Allah before catching fish, and seeing of a Muslim is only one of the ways to ascertain the fish being caught alive in water; and as for the fish thrown out of water onto shore by waves, it will be halal if we know that it has been thrown out of water alive.

Q1321: Will a fish be halal and legal to eat if it throws itself out of water?

A: If it is certain that the fish has thrown itself out of water, it will be legal to eat.